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“Fear”: Bob Woodward’s New Book Depicts Trump White House as “Crazytown”

HeadlineSep 05, 2018

A highly anticipated book by longtime Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward depicts the Trump administration as an out-of-control operation, with Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly calling the White House a “crazytown.” Among the revelations in the book, Defense Secretary James Mattis reportedly said Trump has the understanding of a “fifth or sixth grader.” And Trump reportedly said his decision to finally condemn the deadly white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year was “the biggest fucking mistake I’ve made.” Trump had previously refused to condemn the white supremacists, instead claiming there was “violence on both sides.” The book is titled “Fear: Trump in the White House.”

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